Lamp basing apparatus



Feb. 19, 1963 D. E. KlNcAlD ETAL 3,077,849

LAMP BASING APPARATUS Filed March 21, 1958 5 Sheets-Sheet 1 A 7' TORNE Y Feb. 19, 1963 D. E. KlNcAlD ETAL 3,077,849

LAMP BASING APPARATUS 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed MaIQh 21. 1958 A 7- ToRY/vf Y Feb. 19, 1963 D. E. KlNcAlD ETAL 3,077,849

LAMP BASING APPARATUS l heets-Sheet 3 Filed March 21. 1958 A T TORNE Y United States Patent @ffice 3,077,849 Patented Feb. 19, 1963 3,077l9 LAMP BASIN@ APPARATUS Donald E. Kincaid and Ernest W. White, Anderson, limi., assignors to General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mich., a corporation of Betan/are Filed Mar. 2l, 1958, Ser. No. 722,927 4 Claims. (Cl. ll3l2$l This invention relates to apparatus for the manufacture of lamps and, more particularly, to lamp basing apparatus including means for automatically feeding and transferring plural terminals in a predetermined spaced relationship for electrical connection to plural ferrules positioned on the base of the reflector of a vehicle headlamp.

In the manufacture of the all-glass type of sealed beam headla-mps, the reflector body is provided with metal ferrules which are disposed over openings in the reflector body and imbedded in the reflector glass to support filament lead wires enclosed within the lamp envelope. order to establish an electrical connection from the lamp filaments through the aforementioned ferrules, each such as soldering,

In this operation,

erating stations such as for loading lamps, cleaning lamps, testing filaments, manually loading terminals on ferrules, pre-heating terminals and ferrules, soldering the terminals and ferrules, and unloading the lamp. Itis, therefore, obviously advantageous to provide an automatic terminal feed and transfer mechanism synchronized with the movement of the aforementioned turret for placement of the terminals on the ferrules of the reiiector body at a rate in keeping with the speed of the other operations vide a commercially acceptable apparatus With a high rate of production.

It is, therefore, a principal object and feature of this invention to provide a lamp basing apparatus comprising It is yet another object and feature provide an automatic up plural terminals in a predetermined spaced relationship from Said feeding mechanism and transfer them to the ferrules for electrical connection thereto.

It is yet another of this invention to provide a terminal of a particular configuration with respect to the ferrules to which it is connected which will readily accommodate any misalignment which may occur in transferring the plural terminals onto the plural ferrules, as well as providing a terminal-ferrule combination resulting in an improved electrical connection therebetween. These and other objects, features and advantages of this invention will ap ear more fully hereinafter as the description of the invention proceeds, and in which reference is made to the following drawings in which:

FIGURE l is a plan view, partly fragmentary and in phantom, of the apparatus showing the disposition of various operating stations;

FIGURE 2 is an enlarged fragmentary plan view, partly in section and partly broken away to illustrate various details, of the station of the apparatus in which the terminals are automatically fed to the transfer mechanism;

FIGURE 3 is a cross sectional View taken on line 3-3 of FIGURE 2;

FGURE 4 is an enlarged fragmentary View in elevation of the transfer mechanism at the station at which the terminals are seated on the ferrules;

FIGURE 5 is an enlarged fragmentary plan View, partly in section and partly broken away, of the station at which the transfer mechanism is released from previously soldered terminals;

FIGURE 5a is an enlarged view of the clutch members of the transfer mechanism of FIGURE 5; and

FIGURE 6 is an enlarged View in elevation, partly in section and partly broken away to illustrate certain details, of the terminal and ferrule after they have been elecl trically connected and secured together as by soldering.

Referring now to the drawings, there is shown an 1'1- lustrative embodiment of the invention in a lamp basing machine of the turret type used in the manufacture of all-glass sealed beam headlamps. As shown in FIG. l, the apparatus comprises a horizontal turret or table 2 mounted for rotation upon a specitically referred to, such as idle stations, cleaning stations, pre-heat stations prior to the soldering operation, and the like as previously mentioned.

A vehicle lamp 22 comprising the integrally joined-lens 24 and reflector 26 is adapted to be loaded in the loading station l2 onto a respective support head lll, and subsequently intermittently indexed among the stations aforementioned. For a reason to appear more fully hereinafter, the lamp is not ixedly held on the head 1t) but may adjust thereon to a limited extent. The reflector body is provided with metal ferrules 28 which are disposed over openings in the body of the reflector and imshown in the copending United States application Serial No. 624,022 entitled Transfer Mechanism, filed November 23, 1956, in the names of Ernest W. White and Richard M. Goodwin, and assigned to the assignee of this invention.

The automatic terminal relative to the turret 2 by sequential actuation of a uidthe piston and cylinder type the support member 3).

A transfer head 33 is vertically movably mounted on the turret 2 adjacent each of the support heads 10 and includes mechanism to be described hereinafter adapted to receive the plural terminals fed from the feeding mechanism 32. and transfer them onto the lamp ferrules 28 for soldering at the subsequent soldering station 16. The transfer mechanism 38 includes a latching mechanism to be described hereinafter which is operated by a conventional duid-actuated motor 40 of the piston and cylinder type to release a clutching mechanism for grasping the plural terminals being fed from the receiver 34. The motor 40 is secured to support 30 by the bracket 42,.

At the soldering station 16, the plural terminals which have been seated previously on their respective ferrules are soldered by any suitable mechanism, not shown. However, it is preferable that a soldering apparatus be employed such as that shown in the copending United States application Serial No. 629,722 entitled, Solder Feeding Apparatus, filed December 20, 1956 in the name of Richard M. Goodwin, and assigned to the assignee of this invention.

As aforementioned, the station 18 is provided for releasing the soldered terminals from the transfer mechanism 38, and to this end a conventional fluid-actuated motor 44 of the piston and cylinder type is tixedly supported relative to the movable turret 2 by means of a bracket 46 secured to the base of the machine.

Referring now to the details of the apparatus with respect, particularly, to FIGS. 2 through 5, the terminal feeding receiver 34 may be seen to include a depression 48 formed by the walls of the receiver, and into which there extends the tapered or bullet-headed ends of three pins 50 which are rigidly secured in the outer end of the receiver in a predetermined substantially triangularly spaced relationship. With the receiver 34 retracted, the feeding mechanism 32 functions to deposit a terminal 52 on each of the three pins S within the depression 48.

The details of the terminals 52 may be seen by referring to FIG. 6 which shows the terminals when once soldered to a respective ferrule 28. Each of the terminals 52` includes a base leg portion 54 having an integral upstruck annular tapered wall portion 56 dening an opening having an axis substantially normal to the base leg 54 and alignable with the axis of the ferrules 28 and pins 50. The juncture of the terminal base leg 54 and wall portion 56 forms an annular shoulder 58. Formed integrally with and upstanding substantially normally relative to the base leg portion is another leg portion 60 having an aperture 62 therethrough for effecting an electrical connection when the lamps are installed for use.

With respect to the terminal feeding mechanism 32, it will be appreciated that the annular tapered wall portion 56 of each terminal is adapted to be fed onto a respective one of the pins 50 with the base leg 54 nesting on the base of the depression 48 of the receiver. Naturally, the taper of the pins 50 aids in seating the terminals thereon. Thereafter, the duid-actuated motor 36 may be actuated to extend the loaded receiver 34 radially toward the turret 2 as is indicated in FIGS. 1 through 3, inclusive.

Each transfer head 38 includes a bushing 64 rigidly secured to an upstanding pillar 66, and a radially inwardly projecting arm 68 having bifurcated legs 70 adapted to embrace the upstanding guide post 72 fixed to the turret to retain the transfer head in a predetermined desired position with respect to the support head 10. The transfer head 38 is adapted to be fed vertically relative to the support head by reason of a cam track mechanism, not shown, in the base of the machine which is well known to those acquainted with this art. Suffice it to say, the lower end of the pillar 66 is normally provided with a cam follower roller riding in a cam track, sequentially operable means being provided in association with the intermittent drive mechanism 6 for periodically, as desired, raising and lowering the transfer head 38 at the various operating stations.

Each transfer head further includes a radially outwardly projecting body or bracket 74 integral with bushing 64, and in which a clutch housing 76 is secured. The clutch housing includes a nose portion 78 provided with plural spaced apertures of a cross section slightly larger than the cross section of the upstanding legs 60 of the terminals 52 for receiving the latter. The apertures in the housing nose portion 78 preferably terminate in downwardly diverging tapered walls to aid in guiding the terminals into the housing. A pair of cooperating clutch members 80 are seated with clearance within the nose portion 78 of the housing 76 whereby they may be moved and spread laterally into engagement with the upstanding legs of the terminals by a slide S2 movably mounted within the housing 76.

The clutch members 80 are semicylindrical in cross section with their cylindrical surfaces disposed toward the walls of the housing nose 78 for engagement with spherical wall surfaces 84 to either side of and forming the apertures through which the terminal legs extend. The clutch me bers 80 are mirror images of each other, and each includes in the preferred embodiment three faces cooperable with the slide 82 or with each other in pivoting and` spreading the clutch members into engagement with the upstanding terminal legs. Tothis end and referring to FIG. 5', each clutch member has the three faces 86, 88 and 90. The face 88 is inclined preferably at an angle of approximately five degrees to the face 86, while the inclination of the face 90 relative to face 88 is preferably forty-five degrees. lt will be apparent from FIG. 5 that the tapered end of the slide 82 may berreceived within the mutually diverging` faces 90 of the clutch members to spread andpivot the latter along their faces 88 and 86 in securing the upstanding legs of the terminals against the interior side walls of the housing nose 78 as shown in FIG. 2, thereby positively securing the terminals within the transfer head 38.

The radially inner end of the slide 82 is provided with an upstanding extension 92 having a depression, notl shown, in which the yieldable spring 94 may be seated, the other end of the spring being provided with arseat 96 fixed to the body 74. A cylindrical abutment 98 is formed on the radially outer face of the extension 92. A bellcrank type latch arm 100 is pivotally connected to the body 7'4 by the screw 102 and is provided with a shoulder or detent 104, and is adaptedto be engaged by the nose of a piston rod 106 connected to a movable piston within the motor means 40 aforementioned. The spring 107 seated in bushing 64 urges the lever 100 clockwise in FIGS. 2 and 5. A similar lever 108 is pivotally connected intermediate its ends to the body 74 by a screw 110, and has a leg adapted to engage the abutment 98 of the slide to retract the latter and compress the spring 94. The other end of the lever 108 acts as a dogging tooth seatable within the detent 104 to retain the slide 82 in a retractedposition. It will be apparent from a consideration of FIG. Zthat, with the respective levers 100 and 108 and the piston rod 106 disposed in the dotted line positions, the slide 82 will be retracted and latched against the spring 94. Upon actuation of the fluid motor means 40, the nose of the piston rod 106 will move to the full line position thereby pivoting the lever 100 to its full line position resulting, consequently, in undogging of the lever 108 thereby permitting the slide 82 to be moved radially outwardly under the inuence of the spring 94 to clutch the terminal legs 60. Upon retraction of the piston rod 106, the spring 107 urges lever 100 clockwise against the clogging end of lever 108.

In FIG. 4, the previously described transfer head with the levers 100 and 108 unlatched is illustrated at the station just succeeding the terminal feeding station 14, and in which the aforementioned cam track mechanism has been actuated to feed the transfer head 38 downwardly to seat the base leg portions 54 of the respective terminals upon the ends of the ferrules 28. Subsequently, the intermittent drive mechanism 6 is actuated to advance the actress turret 2 and support head lo into the soldering station l5 for the soldering operation, thereby resulting in the soldered connection between the terminal and ferrules as shown in FIG. 6.

Referring to FIG. 6, it may be seen that each of the metal ferrules 23 includes an end portion lll having an annular tapered side wall H2 merging at the annular shoulder 111i with a main body portion of substantially increased diameter. rEhe previously described annular tapered Wall portion S6 of the base leg portion of the terminal is adapted to receive the end portion lil of a given ferrule so as to closely embrace the tapered side wall lf2 thereof to form a good electrical connection, while the terminal shoulder 58 seats on the ferrule shoulder lilili. As important, if not more important, is the fact that the annular tapered side walls 56 and H2, respectively, of the terminal and ferrule cooperate in aiding the terminals to seek their respective seats on the ferrules.

Those acquainted with this art will recognize that the terminal herein disclosed differs from conventional terminals in that the annular wall portion 5o thereof projects in an opposite direction with respect to the base leg portion 5d and opstanding leg portion 6o of a conventional terminal; thatis, rather than seating the edge of the annular wall portion :S6 of the terminal on a cooperating shoulder on a ferrule, according to this invention the annular tapered wall portion of the terminal provides a tapered opening cooperating with the tapered wall of the ferrule to guide the terminal shoulder 5S and ferrule shoulder 114 into seating engagement. Consequently, as the transfer head is lowered toward the lamp reflector and into the position shown in FIG. 4, if there should be some misalignment between the axis of the openings in the terminal hase legs and the axis of the end portions of the ferrules, the terminal and ferrule will seek their seats. It is for this reason that the lamp 22 is slightly movable on its support head lli as aforementioned. This ferruleterminal construction is exceedingly important with respect to the automatic terminal transfer mechanism herein disclosed inasmuch as great difficulty is encountered in seating conventional terminals onto ferrules.

In FIG. 5, the transfer head is shown at the terminal releasing station liti. At this station and as aforementioned, a fluid-actuated motor le of the reciprocating piston type is rigidly supported on a bracket de secured to the base of the apparatus and fixed relative to the rotatable turret 2. From FIG. 5 it will be quite apparent that, upon actuation of the fluid-actuated motor 44, the piston rod il@ will be projected to engage one end of the lever M3 thereby pivoting the latter. As a result, the lever 163 engages the abutment 98 on the slide thereby retracting the latter against the yieldable spring Qd. Duringthis action, the (logging end of the lever ldd cams along the portion of the lever lod against which the spring lo? acts thereby pivoting the lever against the spring lo? until such time as the clogging end of lever ldd slips into the detent lli/t on the lever lltti. At this time, and as will be apparent from FIG. 5, the slide S2 is latch-ed in a retracted position thereby releasing the clutch members 8o from the opstanding leg portions 6u of the respective terminals. Thereafter, the aforementioned cam track mechanism will fun2tion in a subsequent station to elevate the transfer head from the terminals, and the intermittent drive mechanism will index the turret to the unloading station 2li in which the lamps 22 are easily accessible for removal from their support heads it).

Prior to describing a cycle of operation of the aforedescribed apparatus, it should be noted that any suitable control system may be provided for sequentially actuating the terminal feeding mechanism 32 to deposit terminals on the receiver 3d, and the various fluid-actuated motors 36, 4o and 44. However, in adapting the apparatus for use in a headlamp basing machine as specifically illustrated, it is preferable to employ an index cam-controllo circuitry operating off of the drive mechanism o which is of a type utilized for many years in lamp manufacturing apparatus of this type in controlling the sequence of operation of the various components of the apparatus at the respective operating stations. inasmuch as such camcontrolled circuitry is so well known and, in and of itself, forms no part of this invention, it is not considered necessary to fully describe it. However, as is quite well known to those acquainted with this art, such a control mechanism typically includes plural switches adapted to be actuated by associated cam mechanisms driven from and associated with the intermittent drive mechanism 6. The aforementioned cams are so related with respect to the switches which they control so as to sequentially operate the latter as desired for an operating interval followed by a dweil interval. During the operating interval, suitable circuit means connected to the respective switch controls the sequential actuation of the component with which it is associated. For example, and referring to the various fluid-actuated motors herein described, a typical control system for sequentially actuating these motors as desired would include a source of fluid under pressure suitably connected through magnetically-actuated valves to the respective fluid motors. As a particular lamp is intermittently indexed among the various operating stations, various of the aforementioned cams would be operated in a predetermined sequence from the intermittent drive mechanism 6 to control the various magnetically-actuated valves to supply fluid to and exhaust fluid from the respective fluid motors. Thus, the various fluid-actuated motors previously described may be actuated at a time and for an interval desired in accordance with operation of the intermittent drive mechanism 6 in indexing a given lamp among the various operating stations.

In operation, a given lamp 22 will be seated in a support head l@ at the loading station l2, and will already have been provided with plural substantially triangularly spaced ferrules 28 upstanding from the rear of the reflector 26. During the loading operation, the cam track mechanism associated with the pillar 66 will dispose the transfer head 38 suciently far above the support head 1t) so as to render the latter completely accessible to the operator in loading the lamp unit. Thereafter, the intermittent drive mechanism functions to advance the turret 2 into the next operating station. For the sake of simplicity, the description which follows will be made with respect to the particular operating stations disclosed herein, it being understood that several other stations as aforementioned may be located between the particular stations described.

After loading a lamp into a given support head 10, the intermittent drive mechanism will rotate the Iturret 2 into the terminal feeding station 14 opposite the terminal feeding mechanism 32 and a dwell interval occurs. Prior to this time, plural terminals will have been seated on the end of the receiver 3d which, at this time, will be in a retracted position. In this regard, it is preferable but not necessary that a limit switch be located on the fixed support 3@ of the terminal feeding mechanism so as to be in the path of movement o-f a reflector 26 seated in t.e support head lll to provide a signal to the control. circuitry as to the presence or absence of a lamp in the support. Such a limit switch would be employed essentially as a monitor fo-r the cam-controlled circuitry to prevent actuation of the Huid motor means 36 to extend the receiver 34 into the positionl shown in the drawings if a lamp has not been loaded in the particular support head indexed into the terminal feeding station.

Assuming that a lamp is present in the support head, the motor 36 is actuated so as to extend the receiver 34 into the position shown. At this time the transfer head 3S, which has been fully indexed into the terminal feeding station with its associated support head, is lowered downwardly upon the terminals in the receiver by means of the cam track mechanism aforementioned operating through the support pillar 66. Upon termination of downward movemen-t of the transfer head 38, the upstanding leg portions 6l) of the three terminals will have been received through the apertures in the nose portion 78 of the housing 76 so as to be relatively uncontined with respect to the walls of the latter and the cylindrical faces of the clutch members 80. At this time and referring to FIG. 2, the levers 160 and 168 are latched thereby retaining the slide 82 in a retracted position out of engagement with the clutch members 80. These lever members have been lef-t in this position from a previous cycle as will be more apparent hereinafter. The fluid motor 40 is now actuated from the dotted line position' shown to the full line position, and piston rod 106 engages the lever 10i) to unlatch the lever 1&8 thereby permitting the spring 94 to move the slide radi-ally outwardly against the clutch members S to firmly seize the terminals between the clutch members and the side walls of the housing 76. The rod 106 then retracts to the dotted line position. The dwell interval ends, and drive mechanism 6 indexes the turret to la succeeding station where another dwell interval occurs.

In the station next succeeding the terminal feed station, the cam track mechanism lowers the support pillar 66 and transfer head 38 into the position shown in FIG'. 4 in which thebase leg portions 54 of the terminals seat on and about the end portions 111 of the ferrules as shown in FIG. 6. In seating the respective terminals on their associated ferrules, the annular tapered wall portion 56 of each terminal cooperates with the similarly tapered wall portion 112 of its associated ferrule so as to guide these two parts together as the transfer head descends until such time as the terminm shoulder 58 is seated on the ferrule shoulder 114. If the terminals should be misaligned Yrelative to the ferrules, the lamp mayrmove slightly in the support head to align them during transfer head feed. Preferably, the transfer head remains in the FIG. 4 position through one or more subsequent stations, such as a pre-heat station, precedingV indexing movement of the table into the soldering station 16.

Upon the lamp being indexed into lthe soldering station 16 by the drive mechanism 6, another dwell interval occurs during which suitable soldering apparatus acts on -the terminal and ferrule to solder them together as shown in FIG. 6.

At the en d of the dwell interval of the drive mechanism 6, the support head is indexed into the terminal release station 18. At this station and referring to FIG. 5, the motor 44 is actuated to extend the piston rod 116 into abutting engagement with the lever 168 to pivot the latter against the abutment 98 to retract the slide 82. As the lever 108 pivots, its clogging end cams up the side of the lever 100 thereby pivoting the latter against the spring 107 until such time as the lever 10S is dogged into thedetent 104 thereby latching the slide in its retracted position. Consequently, the clutch members 30 `are released from the terminals 52 which have previously been soldered to the ferrules 2S. Thereafter, the piston rod 116 is retracted, and the drive mechanism 6 indexes the support head into the succeeding station at which time the cam track mechanism operates through the support pillar 66 to lift the transfer head free of the terminals 52 and to a position in which the lamp is completely accessible for reomval at the subsequent unloading station 20.

Although the description of this invention has been given with respect to an illustrative embodiment thereof,v

the illustration is not to be construed in a limiting sense. Many variations and modifications within the spirit and scope of the invention will now occur to those skilled in thevart. Thus, for a definition of the invention, reference may be made to the appended claims.

We claim:

l. Apparatus for predetermined spaced relation on a lamp reflector having a plurality of ferrules thereon in predetermined placing a plurality of terminals in O cs spaced relation, said apparatus comprising a terminal feeding mechanism including a receiver, means on said receiver for locating on the latter a plurality of substantially L-shaped terminals in predetermined spaced relation with lthe base leg of said terminals seated on said locating means and the other leg upstanding therefrom, a transferhead vertically movably mounted adjacent said rellector, means for feeding said transfer head toward said receiver to receive said upstanding terminal legs, said head comprising clutch means engageable with said opstanding terminal legs, latching means engageable with said clutch means to retain the latter out of engagement with said opstanding terminal legs, motor means operable on said latching means to disengage said clutch to grasp said terminals, means for lowering said transfer head toward said rellectcr to deposit and hold said terminals on said ferrules, means for securing said terminals to said ferrules while being so held, rand motor means for engaging said latch means with said clutch means while said head is in said lowered position to release said terminals subsequent to said securing operation.

2. In combination with a rotatable turret having plural support heads circumferentially spaced thereabout and adapted toreceive a headlamp including an upward ypresented reflector having plural fer-rules thereon inpredetermined spaced relation, andv means for intermittently advancing said turret to index the support heads sequentially among operation stations, a terminal feeding mechanism fixed relative to said turret and comprising a receiver, means on said receiver for locating on the latter a plurality of substantially L-shaped terminals in predetermined spaced-relation with the base leg of said terminals seated on said locating means and the other leg upstanding therefrom, motor means for sequentially extending and retracting said receiver radially relative to said turret, a transfer head vertically movably mounted on said turret adjacent each of said heads, means for feeding said transfer head downwardly toward said receiver` withthe latter extended to receive said upstanding terminal legs, said head comprising clutch means including a housing having spaced apertures therein to receive said upstanding terminal legs, a pair of cooperating clutch members relatively movably mounted in said housing and adaptedto be spread to clutch said upstanding terminal legs to said housing, a slide movably mounted in said housing and including means for engaging said clutch members to spread them, yieldable means normally urging said slide into engagement with said clutch members, latching means engageable with said slide means to retain the latter in a retracted position out of engagement with said clutch members, motor means sequentially operable on said latching means to release said slide to grasp said terminals, means for lowering said transfer head toward` said support head to deposit said terminals on said ferrules, means for securing said terminals to said fcrrules, and means for retracting said slide from engagement with said clutch members and latching said slide in a retracted position upon completion of the securing operation.

3. In combination with a rotatable turret having plural support heads circumferentially spaced thereabout and` adapted to receive a headlamp including an upwardly presented rellector having plural ferrules thereon in predetermined spaced relation, and means for intermittently advancing the turret to index the support heads sequentially among operating stations, a terminal feeding and transfer station comprising an automatic terminal feeding mechanism fixed relative to said turret, said feeding mechanism including a receiver including means for sequentially reciprocably extending and retracting the latter radially relative to said turret to and from a transfer position directly above a support head, plural upstanding pins secured in said receiver in predetermined spaced relation and having tapered ends projecting upwardly f rom` said receiver for respectively receiving a substantially L- shaped terminal, each of said terminals including a base upon securing transfer head is in said lowered position.

4. In combination with a rotatable turret having plural support heads circumferentially spaced thereabout and and means for intermitadvancing the turret to index the support heads determined spaced relationship, tently dening an opening adapted to receive a pin, each of said terminals further including an upstanding leg integral with said base leg, a transfer head vertically movably mounted on said turret adjacent each of said support heads and including means for sequentially feeding said engaging said clutch members to spread them, yieldable means acting between said body and slide normally urging the latter into engagement with said clutch members,

latching the latter 1n a retracted position to release said clutch members upon completion of the soldering operation.

References Cited in the ile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Tomkins June 20, 1939 Danziger Apr. 22, 1947 Flaws et a1 June 5, 1956 McGowan et a1 Oct. 2, 1956 Vargo et al. Oct. 8, 1957 Pilas et al Apr. 22, 1958 UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE vCERTIFICATE. 0F CORRECTION Patent No. 3,077,849 February 19, 1963 Donald E Kincaid et al.

It is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered patent requiring correction and that the said Letters Patent should read as corrected below.

Column l, line 60, afterA "another" insert object column 7, line 64o., for "reomval" read removal fe; column 9, lines l2 and 13., fory 'frecevably" read receivable column 10,. after.. line` 39 add. the following:

2,336,573 ,A Seeley fief- Dec... l14,- 1943 2,794,563 Daines et al June '7.4, 1.957 Signed and sealed this 24th day of September 1963,

lERNEST w. SWTDER DAVID L' LADD Attesting Officer y Commissioner of Patents 

1. APPARATUS FOR PLACING A PLURALITY OF TERMINALS IN PREDETERMINED SPACED RELATION ON A LAMP REFLECTOR HAVING A PLURALITY OF FERRULES THEREON IN PREDETERMINED SPACED RELATION, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING A TERMINAL FEEDING MECHANISM INCLUDING A RECEIVER, MEANS ON SAID RECEIVER FOR LOCATING ON THE LATTER A PLURALITY OF SUBSTANTIALLY L-SHAPED TERMINALS IN PREDETERMINED SPACED RELATION WITH THE BASE LEG OF SAID TERMINALS SEATED ON SAID LOCATING MEANS AND THE OTHER LEG UPSTANDING THEREFROM, A TRANSFER HEAD VERTICALLY MOVABLY MOUNTED ADJACENT SAID REFLECTOR, MEANS FOR FEEDING SAID TRANSFER HEAD TOWARD SAID RECEIVER TO RECEIVE SAID UPSTANDING TERMINAL LEGS, SAID HEAD COMPRISING CLUTCH MEANS ENGAGEABLE WITH 